Building containers with Singularity
We use singularity to create containers both in an interactive mode and also using definition files to build them automaticly.
I had a problem with some webservices connections timing out in our environments and I thought that the timeouts where a bit long. Most of our webservices run inline with a user request and some of the default timeouts didn’t make the cut. com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.connectionTimeout=300 com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.maxConnection=50 com.ibm.websphere.webservices.http.SocketTimeout=300 The settings above is the onces set in Websphere…
In this video, we talk about how to set up a Ceph RADOS block device. We will mount this device on a Linux client and talk about what block device is used for and the difference between a Ceph file system. We also touch on iSCSI and its usage around block devices. Moreover, we talk…
We solve the day 15 challenge for the Advent of Code.
We talk about building different file utils and how they can be stringed together to great usage.
We look into the PWNKit vulnrability and how it works. PWNKit is a linux exploit that have been in linux environments for over 12 years. We look at how it works and what is required to be vulnrable and different approaches to secure your system.
We are in our new linux environment and create gettext and OpenSSL, talking about internationallization and website security.